National Physicians Alliance and Clinician Action Network Call for Resignation of HHS Secretary Tom Price
In an open letter (link & below), the Clinician Action Network (CAN) and National Physicians Alliance (NPA) are calling for the immediate resignation of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price. Given HHS's efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act's enrollment and marketing plans, Price's repeated support for legislation that would throw millions of American into the ranks of the uninsured and raise cost for millions more, and the most recent revelation that Price has spent over $400,000 of tax-payer dollars on private jet travel, both CAN and NPA believe it's time for Price to go.National Physicians Alliance Statement on Cassidy-Graham ACA Repeal Proposal
The latest revision of the attempt to strip away many of the healthcare consumer protections passed under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is little changed in substance: it still allows insurers to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions and sell plans that are essentially junk coverage. Tens of millions of people will lose their health insurance coverage, millions more will pay more for less.National Physicians Alliance Statement on Senate Vote on Motion to Proceed with ACA Repeal
"By now stripping away many of the healthcare consumer protections passed under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), allowing insurers to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions and selling plans that are essentially junk coverage, Majority Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans took an already very harmful bill and made it even worse.